Young, as compared with the Grand Canyon, for instance?
Dorothy Parker

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson

My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she’s as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.
Robert Orben

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it’s all a little bit lower.
Gypsy Rose Lee

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald, they don’t recognize you.
Bennett Cerf

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
Anthony Powell

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.
John Wagner

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Pearsall Smith

Serious Sexagenarians

Off from the funny and on to more reflective quotes.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
Audrey Hepburn

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Mason Cooley

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you’d find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.
Dave Barry

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel Butler

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.
George MacDonald

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Arnold Bennett

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
David Ogilvy

There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else’s.
Mark Twain

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you’re going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words, if you want to go on working after you’re sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
Malcolm Muggeridge

’Tis at sixty a man learns how to value home.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
Ellen Glasgow

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette